J. R. R. Tolkien
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Tolkien, 50 years on
The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent
Tolkien and environmentalism
The author of The Lord of the Rings despaired of the modern world
Between Middle Earth and the West
130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien?
Bored of the Rings
Is it time for the Tolkien industry to give it a rest?
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
